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404 Media reportedly placed an AirTag in a shipment of 1,000 books, which was tracked to an Amazon processing facility. The facility allegedly removes book spines and scans the pages, reportedly to create training data for AI models.
A viral X post claims Anthropic is mass-purchasing books, scanning them for AI training data via distillation, then destroying originals for legal safety. Blogger Sivori notes this echoes a plot from Vernor Vinge's 2006 novel 'Rainbow's End'. The tactic avoids copyright risks in data acquisition.
This daily tech tip shows how to turn a physical book into an e-book by flipping pages in front of a camera lens. The author reflects that the real interest lies not in the conversion process itself, but in deciding which steps to entrust to machines. Full tutorial provides the practical steps.
Google is introducing a button that lets readers mark publishers as preferred sources across Search, Discover, and Google News. The feature could help publishers recover traffic as AI-powered search generates fewer direct clicks to websites.
Runlayer and Rippling have dropped their lawsuits, with no money changing hands. Rippling marked the resolution by releasing a competing product, leaving the dispute as a cautionary example for founders.
KCD Hangzhou has opened its call for papers, inviting the community to discuss cloud native technologies, observability, and large-model inference in the Agent era. The announcement targets practitioners interested in sharing or learning about the infrastructure behind AI agents.
Wired AI argues that Silicon Valley technology leaders do not understand society’s growing frustrations with AI. The article criticizes their public messaging as disconnected from legitimate concerns about AI’s impact.
GitHub provides an update on the August 17 outage and outlines ongoing work to improve platform reliability. The supplied excerpt does not include specific root-cause findings or remediation details.
Anthropic reportedly expects its IPO to match or exceed SpaceX's record $75 billion raise and could file publicly as soon as the end of this month. The company reportedly recorded an almost $42 billion net loss in 2025, about five times the previous year's figure.
Alibaba’s profit plunged after it raised quarterly capital expenditure for AI to nearly $10 billion. The report also examines Meta’s growing role as a Microsoft AI customer and Castelion’s plans to scale hypersonic missile production.